Celebrities really do know how to confuse us, don’t they? If it’s not one diet fad it’s another. Now, stars like Jennifer Hudson, Kelly Clarkson, and Mandy Moore are swearing by Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet. Siegel is a real guy and until recently his cookies were available only to private patients. But now even regular folk like you and I can partake in the latest diet craze.

Dr. Siegal claims you can eat six cookies a day plus a sensible dinner of 300 to 800 calories and you will lose weight!  The ‘magic’ cookies can be used as a healthy snack or as an appetite suppressant.  Each daily bag contains six cookies at 90 calories each.

According to E! News, celebrities…have been said to have lost weight on this diet. The first ever Cookie Diet store recently opened in Beverly Hills and celebrities and other well-to-do socialites in the neighborhood have been flocking to the store. [Source]

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With all the weight nonsense that’s been following Kelly Clarkson around these days, you have to give the girl credit for keeping a level head. The “All I Ever Wanted” singer remains committed to her “self love” mantra and insists that she doesn’t diet, that her weight remains consistent and that it’s all just a matter of perception.

The two-time Grammy winner, 26, admits, “I run when I feel like I need to run and de-stress” but she doesn’t regularly work out.

How much weight has she lost?

“Oh, I haven’t,” she tells me. “I’m always the same size. People just get pictures of me in black and I look thinner, and people get pictures of me in white and I look bigger.”

Feeling good about herself is part of Kelly’s nature.

“I have a really, really great support system, so I’ve always been like that. But I mean, obviously, I’m humble as well, because there’s a lot of things about which I have no clue.” [Source]

Must be wonderful to be so blissfully indifferent.

Kelly Clarkson feels people like her because she is overweight. The ‘My Life Would Suck Without You‘ singer - who shot to fame after winning the first series of TV talent contest ‘American Idol‘ - is never under stress to be thin because fans have always supported her, regardless of her weight. She said:

I feel very fortunate coming from ‘American Idol‘. I was the biggest girl in the group.

I’ve always been thicker and millions of people voted for me. People are born all different shapes and sizes. People like me this way.

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Kelly Clarkson is just one of our favorite celebs these days, isn’t she? Especially now that she’s joined the ranks of the “pregnant or fat” all-stars. Kelly is just the latest in a long list of stars whose bulging bellies are making us wonder if the stork will be visiting soon. Clarkson performed on American Idol last night and though Ryan Seacrest complimented her on how great she looked, apparently most of America disagreed.

So is Kelly Clarkson pregnant? The answer is we can’t be sure, but it’s more likely just weight gain. Only recently, Clarkson told Us Weekly that she wasn’t interested at the moment in spawning children. She also told Ryan Seacrest that there is no special person in her life at the moment.

Clarkson, rumored by some to be a lesbian, has had a long battle with weight, often putting on the pounds only to lose them again in a semi-regular fashion.

One thing we can say for Clarkson: if she was pregnant, she’d probably share the news; only earlier today, details of an interview she did with Blender Magazine included gems from Clarkson such as she pisses on her self in the shower, and that she analyzes her snot for illness. [Source]

We’ll see how this all shakes out but for the moment, it really just looks like a case of overeating and lack of exercise or perhaps just a bad stylist since her weight has looked pretty inconsistent of late.

Kelly Clarkson’s fourth album ‘All I Ever Wanted’ is out for grabs, as she returns to her old stomping ground of American Idol tonight. When asked about her fabulous body Kelly sounded really modest and laughed saying:

“I am just being me,”

The two-time Grammy winner, 26, admits, that she doesn’t regularly work out and has not lost any weight ‘. She says:

“I run when I feel like I need to run and de-stress”

“Oh, I haven’t (lost weight), I’m always the same size. People just get pictures of me in black and I look thinner, and people get pictures of me in white and I look bigger. I have a really, really great support system, so I’ve always been like that. But I mean, obviously, I’m humble as well, because there’s a lot of things about which I have no clue.”

Kelly Clarkson is so real it hurts. The super-star pop songstress and American Idol winner gave an interview with Blender magazine recently in which she spoke candidly about a number of issues.

On a penchant for nudity: “I’m the kinda person who just doesn’t like clothes.”

On peeing in the shower: “Anybody who says they don’t is lying.”

On honesty: “I do not lie. Ever. I will tell my girlfriend if she looks fat in her jeans… When you don’t make yourself clear or heard, that’s where trouble starts. And that’s something I learned as a child. No one is going to know what you feel unless you tell them.” [Source]

TMI? Maybe. But we love Kelly so we’re always happy to hear her talk.

So a few weeks ago, OK! ran a piece about Kelly Clarkson’s insane weight loss and bodacious new figure.

“Now fans are buzzing about her weight loss, which some experts place at as much as 20 pounds. But Kelly has been working on her appearance from a number of angles, resulting in her trim yet sexy silhouette.”

And I’m looking at some recent pictures and I’m scratching my head and I’m wondering, where on her body is there a twenty pound deficit? Kelly always just seems to look like Kelly despite the constant rumors of weight loss and/or gain. She’s Kelly and I will love her no matter what but I’d just like to know why OK! is lying to me.

According to ‘Shape Magazine’, Grammy-winning vegetarian Carrie Underwood has dropped between 15 and 20 pounds since her American Idol days. How did she do that? By hitting the treadmill, swimming and sticking to healthy foods. Although she admits to a weakness for cheese, Carrie prevents herself from overindulging by keeping a food diary and carrying around whole grain Kashi bars wherever she goes. Nice trick gurl!

As for Kelly Clarkson, the original queen of AI, she does not reportedly believe in diets. However, being in the music business forced her to refined her eating habits (focusing on portion control) and amping up her fitness routine instead of following any particular diet plan. Kelly has told ‘Us Weekly’ that she indulges in her penchant for chocolate, but only to a certain point.

After a five-year battle with bulimia, AI season 5 runner-up Katherine McPhee managed to drop 30 pounds the healthy way by sticking to the Intuitive eating plan. She told Shape Magazine that the plan worked because she can munch on anything she pleases, but when she’s full, she stops. Exercise-wise, Katherine tones her muscles with weight training and likes to walk on the treadmill for 45 minutes four to five days a week.